October 5, 2016 | No Comments
RENO, Nevada — Donald Trump mocked politicians for mispronouncing “Nevada” during a rally here Wednesday night —while he was mispronouncing it himself.
In accentuating what he thought to be the correct pronunciation — a tangential riff ad-libbed into a comment about the state’s drug problem — he was actually saying it incorrectly.
“Heroin overdoses are surging. In fact, overdoses in Nevada — Nev-AAH-duh,” he said, drawing out the middle syllable as he alighted on the tangent.
“You know what I said? You know what I said? I said when I came out here I said, ‘Nobody says it the other way, it has to be Nev-AAH-da.”
The 3,000 supporters in the room didn’t correct him. They just cheered.
“But if you don’t say it correctly — it happened to a friend of mine, he was killed,” Trump said before returning to the teleprompter. “Drug overdoses, in NeVAAHda, are up 22 percent.”
The correct way to pronounce the name of this swing state, where the last three polls have shown Hillary Clinton ahead of Trump, is “Ne-VAD-ah.”
Trump first mangled the pronunciation in March during his victory speech following the South Carolina primary. In a recent get-out-the-vote video, Ivanka Trump did the same.